Use ⌘-F or Ctrl‑F to trigger the search box. Fantastic update! This is a critical ​“must-have” feature, so I used to rely on Jackie Chui’s popular Find and Replace plugin. Fun fact: Jackie joined Figma and worked on the native feature as well. He’s even got a kind warning from Figma that his plugin is going to become obsolete soon. Love to see this kind of respect for the developers community from Figma.

A new widget from Figma that lets you use your Bitmoji stickers across both apps.

15 shortcuts worth remembering.

You can now use Spotlight while viewing prototypes, which is a great way to present without sharing a screen. There are also some performance improvements to the initial load time of prototypes.

Updates to a new file screen in FigJam: ​“Instantly populate your file with the building blocks needed to host a brainstorm, create a flowchart, or craft a meeting agenda with the new quick start guide in FigJam files.”

“In this episode, Figma Designer Advocate Chad Bergman and Product Manager Jacob Miller will dive into the architecting a healthy culture of collaboration, branching best practices, and the nuances of contribution!”

“Using Component Properties, we can update our library and make the components a bit more clear, flexible, and semi-self-documenting for the users of the library. In this tip, we share how preferred values and exposed instances can make the component consumption experience easier for designers.”

Really fun animation and interaction made by Figmatelier.

Vijay Verma shares a few techniques for adding simple halftone effects in Figma. See also his experiments with Rogie’s upcoming NT plugin and how he achieved a frosted glass effect.

Ridd with a pro tip on using Variants. Good prep work for the design tokens in the future!

Auto-convert pasted text links to Jira and Asana tasks into FigJam widgets.

Nice update to the desktop app making it easy to pick up where you left off.

Use the Figma for Chrome extension to attach Figma & FigJam files to your Google Calendar events.

Molly Hellmuth with a detailed walkthrough of beta features and why they’re worth using right away.

Joey Banks explains why new features are so important for the design systems’ work.

Sho Kuwamoto, Director of Product at Figma, on new features and applying the concept of ​“composition” from engineering to design systems.

New component property features in open beta: exposed nested instances for more customization, preferred values for more clarity when instance swapping, and simplified instances for more focus on relevant properties.

“You can now review, respond, and leave feedback to comments from your phone or tablet.”

Luis on why it’s important to optimize for the usage of components.

Fantastic thread on why collaboration features in XD or Sketch would never match Figma: ​“In short, Adobe would have never caught up to Figma. It’s genuinely easier and cheaper for them to use Figma’s architecture to rebuild all of their existing applications than to try to make any of their existing apps as delightfully multiplayer as Figma.”